Re: [users] Dropping the repotag

From: Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip kanarip com>

To: EPEL development disccusion <epel-devel-list redhat com>

Subject: Re: [users] Dropping the repotag

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:03:25 +0100

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Mike McGrath wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
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>>> Why would a __user__ want a repotag?
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>> I thought this was EPEL and did thus not involve any users rather then
>> administrators of all kinds.
>>
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> I don't think we should get in the business of guessing about our users
> until they show up :-) I'd imagine people interested in EPEL range from
> extremely experienced admins and architects that understand the need for
> a community driven packaging repo, to people that don't realize that
> installing mandrake and SuSE RPM's on the same box is a bad thing and
> they just so happened to find us because Google said so.
>
> -Mike
>
True ;-) But to assume the audience is __users__ maybe contradicts the
EL in EPEL ;-) It is also why I mentioned 'administrators of all kinds'.
I should probably also mention that these 'administrators' will likely
be supporting their own systems, and thus may want to know what repo a
certain package came from -see comment from earlier message by Greg Swallow:
>It's the people that have to deal with users through bug reports and
other support situations that want a repotag.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
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